Apparatus and method fro maintaining a software repository

A method for maintaining a software repository of software files used for installing at least a first software functionality comprising:

• maintaining a first software application within a primary storage facility of the software repository, the first software application comprising a plurality of software files wherein each software file is represented by a plurality of software elements maintained in a software installation map, wherein each software element maintained in the software installation map has at least one associated dependency on at least one other software element maintained in the software installation map and a confidence factor associated with the dependency, the confidence factor indicating at least a number of successful prior installations involving the dependency;
• updating, utilizing at least one processing device, an aging factor of a first software element associated with a first software file from the plurality of software files, the aging factor being a function of at least one of a number of times the first software file is installed during a first time period and the confidence factor;
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• moving the first software file from the primary storage facility of the software repository to a secondary storage facility as a function of the aging factor.

A system for maintaining a software warehouse of software files used for installing at least a first software functionality comprising:

• a first non-transitory storage medium for hosting a plurality of software files wherein each of the plurality of software files are represented by a software element maintained on a software installation map, wherein each software element maintained in the software installation map has at least one associated dependency on at least one other software element maintained in the software installation map and a confidence factor associated with the dependency, the confidence factor indicating at least a number of successful prior installations involving the dependency;
• an aging module configured to monitor the plurality of software files and age a software file as function of at least one of a number of times the first software file is installed during a first time period and the confidence factor;
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• a second non-transitory storage medium in communication with the first storage medium, the second storage medium for receiving from the first storage medium and hosting a plurality of software files when the age of the software file meets a threshold.